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  • We can. Pablo Iglesias, on the 370 measures of the PSOE: "The words are carried by the wind"

Although all political propaganda is already colonized by the story, an electoral campaign still needs a program and presenting it is what the secretary general and candidate of the PSOE has done. Pedro Sánchez's 370 measures for a progressive program are not the basis of a negotiation with Podemos, not even a pressure tool for Pablo Iglesias . To discard it, it is enough to attend the itinerary that the document has followed since its writing: from number 70 of Madrid's Ferraz street to number 40 Miguel Yuste street and from there to a bright stage at Chamartín station, where the acting president exhibited with suspicious mitine prosody.

The folios with which an agreement is worked travel differently and if Pablo Iglesias were the recipient, everything would have been less appalling. That is why what was said during the document's journey is inaccurate. Does not contain winks to Podemos. The truth is that it contains winks to voters of Podemos.

Pedro Sánchez's act followed the scaling of a campaign act by heart. Three parts of the story, half of poetry and two drops of the program. The socialist candidate devoted more than half an hour to the narrative of why he - his person - would not be responsible for a repeat election. In the discount, already exhausted the auditorium, explained some of the 370 proposals, for whose writing it is evident that it was enough to make a series of inlays to the program with which the Socialists presented themselves to the last elections of April 28. In a new personality split, Sánchez embraced to stop the increase in the rental price of homes the intervention that Sánchez had ruled out as unrealizable: «There have been other decisions that Iglesias has proposed to me and that I considered were not realizable (.. .) For example, in the questions of the rental of housing (...) they were a market intervention that logically put the owners in a complicated situation, ”he explained months ago in an interview on Wave Zero.

If the amendment had been granted in a discreet environment, it could be considered as a transfer to Podemos, but once announced from the stage it became a socialist promise. Like the free nursery, the rise in corporate tax, the imposition of low-emission areas in cities and any of the 370 measures that make up a program bold enough to attract a voter from Pablo Iglesias and Jacobin enough not to scare a voter from Emiliano García-Page . Because the common progressive program not only brings proposals but also resignations and explicit that there will not be a referendum of self-determination in Catalonia.

The device is accompanied by a mocking lure, so obvious that it oozes cynicism. A commission in charge of monitoring the program, of the realizable and the unrealizable, that in case of non-compliance ... what? Nothing. The call for elections remains the prerogative of the President of the Government and the composition of the Congress makes it impossible to add a sufficient majority to bring it down. For the simple reason that you would have to choose who to replace you before.

This final waste of Pedro Sánchez's retreat ends, perhaps in an excessively offensive way, with too cruel cruelty, an offer we can not accept. Perhaps because of this, the most harmful revenge of Pablo Iglesias is that he accepts it and becomes a fool, which is a very refined way of doing politics.

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